2020-2021 B1G Basketball Thread

[847badgerfan]

Greg Gard now saying he doesn't know if the L'Ville game will be rescheduled. Supposedly the resumed team activities today, and they do have open dates.

[ELA]

Greg Gard now saying he doesn't know if the L'Ville game will be rescheduled. Supposedly the resumed team activities today, and they do have open dates.

To be honest, if they weren't going to do conference only, it should have been regional warm up games anyway.  I did not expect any of these to get made up

[medinabuckeye1]

Yesterday sure was rough.  I guess we had it coming after Tuesday being so great.  

On Tuesday the B1G went 6-1 in Challenge Games but that big gap covers up the fact that one of the wins was decided in OT while another two were very close deep into the second half or even the final seconds.  

On Wednesday the close games all went the other way and the B1G went 0-4:

• IU lost in OT.  
• NU lost despite leading nearly the entire game including up to 0:08 to go.  
• UNL lost by 11 despite the game being VERY close for the first ~32 minutes and the Cornhuskers holding a lead with less than eight minutes to go.  
• UMD just plain lost.  

Bottom line, our conference got some lucky breaks on the way to 6-1 on Tuesday and some unlucky breaks on the way to 0-4 on Wednesday and now leads this thing 6-5 with three games postponed.  Assuming they get rescheduled they should be:

• Louisiville at Wisconsin
• NCST at Michigan
• MSU at UVA

Assuming they get played, one win gets us a tie in the Challenge, two or three gets us a win.  

[HawkFrenzy]

Looking at the games with ranked teams, the BIG was 5-1 with the only loss was by two in OT:

#3 Iowa by 13 over #16 UNC
#4 MSU - #18 Virginia Canceled
#6 Illinois by 15 over #10 Duke
PSU by 20 over #15 VT
#20 FSU by 2 over IU
#21 Rutgers by 10 over Cuse
#22 OSU by 5 over ND

Now, it may be waaaaay to early to tell but this does bode well for the tourney (provided they play it this year).

[ELA]

I like this guy. Maybe he'll want to come home in a few years when Izzo retires


https://twitter.com/CecilHurt/status/1337124098984587271?s=19

[bayareabadger]

I like this guy. Maybe he'll want to come home in a few years when Izzo retires


https://twitter.com/CecilHurt/status/1337124098984587271?s=19

I am about 75% sure he is a coach who only got his call up to the college ranks because someone wanted to land a recruit. But he has made very good on it.

[ELA]

I am about 75% sure he is a coach who only got his call up to the college ranks because someone wanted to land a recruit. But he has made very good on it.

To Buffalo?  Anyway


https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1337134444726153217?s=19

[bayareabadger]

To Buffalo?  Anyway


https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/1337134444726153217?s=19

Yeah, someone he coached in HS and then went to JUCO. The kid was the MAC POY his second year, Buffalo won the MAC, Hurley got a better job, Oats moved up. The kid was thrown off the team for stealing and Oats went to the tourney three of four years, twice with awesome teams, then had Bama kinda feisty in a rebuilding way last year. 

[ELA]

Yeah, someone he coached in HS and then went to JUCO. The kid was the MAC POY his second year, Buffalo won the MAC, Hurley got a better job, Oats moved up. The kid was thrown off the team for stealing and Oats went to the tourney three of four years, twice with awesome teams, then had Bama kinda feisty in a rebuilding way last year.

IIRC Hurley saw him while recruiting EC Matthews as an assistant at Rhode Island.  So when Hurley got the Buffalo job, he hired Oaks as an assistant.  And Matthews went to URI

[ELA]

K and Duke cancelling all remaining nonconference games?

Scheduling them in the first place was dumb, but bowing out once you lose is...well, par for the course for him

[bayareabadger]

IIRC Hurley saw him while recruiting EC Matthews as an assistant at Rhode Island.  So when Hurley got the Buffalo job, he hired Oaks as an assistant.  And Matthews went to URI

Yup. The future MAC POY was a couple years older. Heart think sidelined him at Toledo. 

[HawkFrenzy]

K and Duke cancelling all remaining nonconference games?

Scheduling them in the first place was dumb, but bowing out once you lose is...well, par for the course for him

Exactly, once he figured out Duke is a middle tier BIG team, well what's the point in going forward? Definitely using COVID as an excuse. Did any of his players or staff catch it because of these games? I've always wanted Duke to lose yet conflicted because I respected Coach K so this is bringing him down. Sadly, he will probably get his way too.

[ELA]

Exactly, once he figured out Duke is a middle tier BIG team, well what's the point in going forward? Definitely using COVID as an excuse. Did any of his players or staff catch it because of these games? I've always wanted Duke to lose yet conflicted because I respected Coach K so this is bringing him down. Sadly, he will probably get his way too.

I used to respect him, that's over.  Between the back thing last time he had a bad team, and then going all in on the one and done, while still selling the DUKE brand as somehow different than Kentucky?  No thanks.  At least Coach Cal knows what he is, and doesn't shy away.  K is the same cat now, and pretends like he isn't.

[Hawkinole]

Iowa 105
ISU 77

12/13/2020 - NIU, then

12/19/2020 - #1 Gonzaga